One of my graduate school mentors, David Wood, used to start philosophy classes by paraphrasing Henry David Thoreau by saying “If you want to go for a walk, you have to be willing to get lost.”
What came to mind here is also the difference between bounded and centered sets. If we are willing to get lost, boundaries are much less important than the centers that help us find our way. Getting lost in ideas is my love language because I am always surprised at where I may end up based on the beginning. The beauty in wandering in the woods and in ideas is that we do not experience the urgency of timetables and destinations.
I love this. Yeah, my friend, John Sanders (of open theism fame), has solidly convinced me that "radial categories" are the right way to think about almost all identities and communities - as opposed to "line drawing" as a strategy of demarcation. The idea is, as you say, that we have contingent centers in relation to which we make sense of where we are and where we are going. Those centers can be renegotiated, but they form the stability that makes possible the identities that we then live into. Thanks so much, as always, for pushing me to think more deeply about things that matter! I am a fan of your work. Keep it up, my friend.
What came to mind here is also the difference between bounded and centered sets. If we are willing to get lost, boundaries are much less important than the centers that help us find our way. Getting lost in ideas is my love language because I am always surprised at where I may end up based on the beginning. The beauty in wandering in the woods and in ideas is that we do not experience the urgency of timetables and destinations.
I love this. Yeah, my friend, John Sanders (of open theism fame), has solidly convinced me that "radial categories" are the right way to think about almost all identities and communities - as opposed to "line drawing" as a strategy of demarcation. The idea is, as you say, that we have contingent centers in relation to which we make sense of where we are and where we are going. Those centers can be renegotiated, but they form the stability that makes possible the identities that we then live into. Thanks so much, as always, for pushing me to think more deeply about things that matter! I am a fan of your work. Keep it up, my friend.